Akanoma Studio Quotes & Sayings

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong. — Bill Griffith

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't. — Jeff Garlin

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution. — Robert Collyer

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse. — Ramez Naam

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges. — Mike DeWine

Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain. — William Shakespeare

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate. — Alexander Hamilton

When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful. — Junot Diaz

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. — Jimmy Dean

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people. — Donald Cargill

You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you'll never make them again. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy. — Salman Rushdie

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre

It sounds like a cliche, but it ... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports. — Kenny Chesney